American tourist, 18, 'was on a SCHOOL TRIP' when she gave birth in a Paris hotel room then hurled the newborn baby to its death from a window

The 18-year-old was part of 'a group of young people travelling in Europe', according to the French authorities.

The teenage mother allegedly threw her baby from the second floor of an Ibis Styles hotel 'with the umbilical cord', authorities said.

Investigators in Paris believe the young woman was suffering from 'pregnancy denial' when she gave birth 'unexpectedly' at the budget hotel in the French capital.

the maymays said musk was gonna make genetically engineered catgirls why he makin the eggs cost more

Owarida for lolbertarians grorious state capitarism will crush them

I wonder about the economics on this tho. 22,000 kms between Beijing and Buenos Aires by ship. How do they possibly justify the fuel cost lol?

Squid isn't even that expensive.

also a bat virus just killed 50 folx in the Congo

https://rdrama.net/h/maxn/post/345501/biohazardmystery-illness-marseyplaguedoctor2in-congo-marseykentekills-more

also enters the body same way as covid

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/chinese-researchers-find-bat-virus-enters-human-cells-via-same-pathway-covid-2025-02-21/

I bought a 400/5.6L which will give me long reach to shoot wild raccoons, birds, butts, cars racing and boats. On my Canon R5 I can also shoot in crop mode which will give me a 1.6x multiplier without losing light like you would using the 1.4x teleconverter.

But here's the stupid part.

I've been really getting into video lately and most of my lenses aren't geared towards that. I have the following.

TS-E 17/4 - Manual focus, ultra wide architectural lens. Smooth focusing but you have to do it by hand.

TS-E 24/3.5IIL - Manual focus, wide architectural lens. Smooth focusing but you have to do it by hand.

EF 16-35/4L IS - Ultrawide zoom, great for video but with a stiff zoom ring which sucks because the camera ends up twisting when you try and pull a zoom

EF 17-40/4L IS - My first "expensive" lens, great sharpness and smooth but light zoom ring.

TS-E 45/2.8 - Manual focus, normal architectural lens. Smooth focusing but you have to do it by hand.

EF 50/1.4 - A really great, normal lens if you're shooting stills, but has an archaic autofocus motor that's too slow to keep up with video.

EF 85/1.8 - Great short telephoto lens with fast focus and great low-light capabilities.

TS-E 90/2.8 - Manual focus, telephoto architectural lens. Smooth focusing but you have to do it by hand.

EF 70-200/4L IS - Great for shooting video but only for tight spots. The largest lens I can balance out on my gimbal.

I had the 17-40/4L first and when I got into video, I thought I should have an ultra wide zoom with image stabilization, thinking it would work in concert with the cameras in-body stabilization. I was wrong. It's one or the other. So the upgrade to the 16-35 was for naught. In fact, I like using the 17-40 more, since the zoom ring is very low resistance and it's much lighter weight (not that I'm a kitty, it's just easier to balance on my gimbal).

Some of the more photography-knowledgeable people here are going to realize what I'm missing - a good mid-range zoom lens, like a 24-70mm. Especially since I've been doing a lot of documentary style filming and plan on continuing my Geezer Group doc this summer. Otherwise I have to be constantly switching lenses while trying to capture things in the moment, between the 17-40, 50, and 70-200. So what I'm saying is, I should've bought that. However, it still feels kind of redundant being a focal length I already have covered with other lenses, while the 400mm is something fresh and new. Especially after running into the limitations of the 70-200 during my recent trip to Florida while trying to film boats from the shore.

Was buying the 400mm a mistake? Probably in the short run, but I can always save up and buy a midrange zoom sometime this spring. I have money, but I can only access a little bit of it each month and there are a lot of things I want and need.

I dunno.

Trump: The US will take over the Gaza Strip… we’ll own it pic.twitter.com/W0mEQzIUut

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 5, 2025

The Tuxedo, 2x broken ribs, an injured paw, and some lacerations. After a night in the hospital, he is expected to make a full recovery. The same can't be said for the pibbles.

The velvet hippo wouldn't surrender its new play toy and turned on me when I tried to intervene. I gave the pibbles all 5 tines of a farmer's pitchfork. I lifted the bloody beast up and carried it to the barn. I wedged the handle in the dirt and pinned the velvet hippo to the barn.

It's like a Mortal Kombat fatality

With the pibbles elevated off the ground and skewered to the barn, it was no longer a threat. I then attended the injured cat.

The deceased pibbles had a collar. I notified the police. Animal control came out to make a report and take some pictures. The look on the officers face when she saw the pibbles pinned the barn was priceless. "Mother Fu*k, that's not something you see every day!"

The owner of the pitbull was charged for owning a dangerous dog at large and threatening public safety. Armed with the police report, I am now hiring an attorney and filing a lawsuit against the pibbles owner.

Also, I contacted the owner of the property whom I've known for decades. The tenants were not permitted to have a dog on the rental property. To avoid a second lawsuit, targeting the property owner, the landlord is evicting the tenants for violating the lease agreement.

I have no idea what the frick is going on at BPB lately. It used to have a stronger relationship to trolling (remember #PitBullDropoff?) before evolving into paranoid true crime foidery (would you rather meet a man or a pit bull in the forest?). At this point it just seems to be a place for surreptitiously getting off to animal violence. Lots of "pit bull gets kicked in the head by a horse" type videos. More recently people have started posting their badass 100% true stories about how they or their pets killed pibbles.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/1im0mac/pitbull_vs_tuxedo/mbzg8f7/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/1im0mac/pitbull_vs_tuxedo/mbzicqu/?context=8

OP continues to push it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/1im0mac/pitbull_vs_tuxedo/mc0ztnb/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/1im0mac/pitbull_vs_tuxedo/mc148qy/?context=8

Kill pibbles. Behead pibbles. Roundhouse kick a pibble into the concrete. Skewer pibbles with a pitchfork.

Macron story is even more crazy than we tought. pic.twitter.com/SBhDUsaPU6

— Johnny (@j00ny369T) February 18, 2025

!schizomaxxxers

!eurochads

!nonchuds unlimited calories = unlimited chudcel weightmogging

EDIT: PLEASE stop telling me I'm in danger, I can't do much about it at this point and I have severe panic disorder and I appreciate the concern and warnings but I am freaking out lol

I got a little (very) carried away with the Diatomaceous Earth yesterday trying to hastily treat my mom's flea problem. I only followed word-of-mouth directions from a friend, didn't look up anything or read the packaging. It's not even the food grade version.

How do I get this off the floors without just kicking it all up into the air? When I poured it everywhere yesterday, my asthmatic mom had trouble breathing afterwards. I just attempted to carefully sweep the kitchen, and walked away feeling like I just snorted rails of straight tree pollen. I have guests coming over tomorrow. What should I do?

P.S. Please don't be mean, I know I'm stupid and I've learned my lesson!

Edit: Update: Thanks for all the helpful advice!! I am so lucky to have done this in a house that has tile throughout instead of any installed carpeting. The furniture I coated with the D-Earth ended up being furniture my mom planned on getting rid of/replacing anyways, except for her leather sofa. The only thing we haven't been able to take care of with wet mopping and a wet rag is my bedroom rug, which gives me an excuse to go ahead and buy this other one I've had my eye on :) I'm so thankful that I didn't need to go rent any equipment to fix this, but thank you to all who suggested the idea!

There's Food Grade and there's Pool Grade. Pool Grade Diatomaceous Earth is extremely dangerous.

Dumbass hicks.

Captain America: Brave New World - 51% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Worse than The Marvels.

There have been 35 MCU films and this one ranks 33rd, ahead of only The Eternals and Ant Man 3.

I thought RT was supposed to be rigged. If so, it looks like Marvel has failed to offer up the appropriate number of child sacrifices, or whatever it costs to get good reviews these days.

DBS Group Holdings plans to cut about 4,000 of its contract and temporary staff workforce over the next three years as artificial intelligence increasingly takes on roles carried out by human beings.

South-east Asia's largest lender has approximately 8,000 to 9,000 of such staff, according to chief executive officer Piyush Gupta replying to a query from Bloomberg News. He confirmed a Press Trust of India news agency report which said the bank will trim its workforce following further adoption of AI across its business.

Permanent staff will not be affected, the outgoing CEO said. DBS : D05 -0.58%has around 41,000 staff and Tan Su Shan, currently deputy CEO, will succeed Gupta on Mar 28.

A DBS spokesperson said: "The reduction in workforce will come from natural attrition as temp and contract roles roll off over the next few years."

Global banks will cut as many as 200,000 jobs in the next three to five years as artificial intelligence encroaches on tasks currently carried out by human workers, said a Bloomberg Intelligence report last month.

Chief information and technology officers surveyed for BI indicated that on average they expect a net 3 per cent of their workforce to be cut, according to the report.

Still, many firms have stressed that the shift will result in roles being changed by technology, rather than replaced altogether. Teresa Heitsenrether, who oversees JPMorgan Chase's AI efforts, said in November that the bank's adoption of generative AI was so far augmenting jobs.

In its latest results announcement, DBS said net profit for the fourth quarter rose 11 per cent from a year ago.

Net profit for the three months ended Dec 31, 2024, was S$2.52 billion, compared with S$2.27 billion previously, and was slightly short of expectations.

Excluding one-off items – a S$100 million corporate social responsibility commitment to DBS Foundation and other charitable causes – Q4 net profit would have been up 10 per cent at S$2.62 billion.

Following the results, analysts raised target prices and dividend estimates on DBS, predicting higher valuation ahead.

Maybank said DBS was giving significant visibility on capital returns. While earnings could grow at just 1 per cent compound annual growth rate between FY2025 and FY2027, dividends could expand at 7 per cent, delivering yields higher than 6.5 per cent, it said.

It upgraded its estimate for dividend per share (DPS) by 14 to 22 per cent between FY2025 and FY2027.

RHB added that one key highlight was DBS' management providing clarity on the quantum of excess capital of S$8 billion, and reaffirming its commitment to return this to shareholders over the next three years.

That will start with a capital return dividend of S$0.15 per share per quarter for FY2025 that DBS announced on Monday.

That is over and above its earlier share buyback programme and a S$0.24 increase in ordinary DPS this year, RHB noted. After factoring in the capital return dividend, RHB's estimate for its FY2025 DPS is S$3.06, from S$2.46. BLOOMBERG

https://archive.ph/hMPIs

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/jfk-assassination-files-trump-document-dump

!fedposters